sickening
causing or capable of causing sickness, especially nausea, disgust, or loathing: sickening arrogance.
Origin of sickening
1Other words for sickening
Other words from sickening
- sick·en·ing·ly, adverb
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How to use sickening in a sentence
As Sojourner Gibbs pulled out of her parking space at a Sam’s Club in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, one afternoon last summer, she felt the familiar, sickening symptoms of diabetic shock.
“They Saw Me and Thought the Worst” | by Richard A. Webster, WRKF and WWNO, photography by Kathleen Flynn, special to ProPublica | September 24, 2021 | ProPublicaThe inhumane treatment of the Haitian refugees is utterly sickening.
Why are there thousands of Haitian migrants at the Texas border? | Amber Phillips | September 22, 2021 | Washington PostBehind the pulse pounding against Pieciul’s temples was the sickening realization that a sow with a cub in a den was among the worst possible scenarios for a bear encounter.
That would also allow scientists to define the precise amount of chemo, so doctors wouldn’t have to over-treat patients with harsh drugs that create sickening side effects.
The immediate effects of the highly toxic drugs were catastrophic, sickening patients at times nearly to death.
Emil Freireich, a pioneer of chemotherapy and a ‘towering figure in oncology,’ dies at 93 | Emily Langer | February 4, 2021 | Washington Post
Hot orange flames leap into the sky bringing with them the sickening, inescapable stench of death.
Lack of elaboration is a virus that continually infects the book, sometimes having a sickening effect on the reader.
His giddy glee turns sickening when you consider the coldhearted inhumanity that necessarily lies beneath.
By then he was blue in the face, a sickening color, like an old hematoma.
Real Life Lazarus: When Patients Rise From the Dead | Sandeep Jauhar | August 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThey absolutely must boycott this absurd, insane, sickening, repulsive, shameful, and at the same time shame-less circus.
With sickening repugnance, I seized the Thing by its two broad shoulders and rolled it over.
Uncanny Tales | VariousThe station building gave sickening creaks; then it toppled with a crash.
A Lost Hero | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward and Herbert D. WardIt is not only annoying, but absolutely sickening to some, and a truly lady-like person will avoid all such topics.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness | Florence HartleyAristide composed his face into an expression of parental interest; but within him there was shivering and sickening upheaval.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. LockeIt was like an old pain returning at an unexpected moment to chill a man with the sickening reminder that all joy must end.
The Man from Time | Frank Belknap Long
British Dictionary definitions for sickening
/ (ˈsɪkənɪŋ) /
causing sickness or revulsion
informal extremely annoying
Derived forms of sickening
- sickeningly, adverb
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